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Supply chain / Production planner

£30,000 - £35,00 per annum + pension AND MORE

This is a fantastic opportunity for a professional to join an organisation which is growing, diversifying and is passionate about customer satisfaction. This is a new role which has been created in response to the company’s recent growth in volume and complexity of activity, if you share our passion for customer satisfaction and you believe that you have the skills/attributes that can help us on our journey, then we would like to hear from you.

Salary & Benefits:

• A starting salary of up to £30,000 - £35,000
• up to 27 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Sick pay scheme
• Life insurance
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Free on-site car parking
• Excellent training and development

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Chair daily internal production planning meeting.
• Continually review production plan to maintain line/tank capacity to ensure plans are achievable within known constraints.
• Management of inventory levels / slow moving stocks.
• relevant countries/trade agreements,
• Export letter of credit management,
• Assist in management and continuously improvement of the export strategy, with goals to reduce financial risk.
• Previous experience within a FMCG environment with the responsibility for planning/scheduling.
• cross-functionally and with multidisciplinary teams.
• Strong leadership capabilities
• Experience of importing/exporting from/to the far East / Europe / USA.

Knowledge, Skills & Experience:

• Excellent communication / interpersonal skills - Relates to all kinds of people, up, down and sideways. Builds appropriate rapport; builds constructive and effective relationships.
• Excellent Organisational & Co-Ordination skills - Can marshal resources to get things done; can orchestrate multiple activities at once to accomplish a goal.
• Approachable – Is easy to approach and talk to; spends the extra effort to put others at ease; can be warm, pleasant, and gracious; is sensitive to and patient with interpersonal anxieties of others; builds rapport well; is a good listener.
• Desire for Self-Development – Is personally committed to and actively works to continuously improve him/herself; works to deploy strengths; works on compensating for weakness and limits (e.g. training).
• A Good team player – Ability to work well within a team to achieve team goals.

If you would like more information, please contact Kieran Russell